Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one

Stop buying books from Amazon

Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores

Here’s a 20% discount on your first order

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Yeah fuckin' Wednesday is a great day to have a 24 hour only merch drop.

1st set of earrings, done.

Make more Pokemon ones soon, just need to post some of these to my Etsy now.

More to come!

#earrings #craft #jewelry #pokemon #horror

For now, just report and block, and treat it like it doesn't exist. They want responses, they want you to put energy into them cuz no one in their life loves or cares about them. Don't engage at all cuz they'll just keep coming back the more you do.

Just watched the YUNGBLUD Smashing Pumpkins video for a song called Zombie (not that one) and like... why do you need 4 guitars for this song? It's a 4/4 measure with one note each beat and YUNGBLUD keeps making duckface and I think it just sucks.

The biggest sin of the Mega Man Legacy Collections is not having the ability to change the button mapping cuz the Mega Man Zero series has the worst control scheme in the entire fucking franchise.

Anyway I'm doing well. I have a little bit of a bug, but a minor one. Not too bad. I hope you're doing well. Get some sun or something. Do something nice for yourself today.

In 2026, I'm gonna finish the story/novella I've been wanting to write all year long. I have the roadmap, I have the pieces, it's gonna get done.

picture of Jerma985 in a red baseball cap and t-shirt reaching towards the viewer for a handshake/hand holding. the caption says "let's SURVIVE 2026 together"

🦝🥂🎉

Also thanks to @thinkoutbooks.bsky.social for the physical copy of The Descent. Fantastic addition to the collection.

"The Descent" by James Long was my favorite read this year. Such an insane book and story. Would love to see it as a miniseries or something. Overall, everything I've read this year was really good. Maybe "Pines" by Blake Crouch was the weakest, but still interesting.

I've been trying to read more, and while it's not a staggering amount, the books I've read this year are, "Blood Meridian" Cormac McCarthy, "The Only Good Indians" Stephen Graham Jones, "Pines" Blake Crouch, "Stolen Tongues" Felix Blackwell, "The Descent" James Long, and "SEED" Ania Ahlborn.

I'm starting a new job in a week. It sounds great. The schedule is great. The cause is great. Maybe I can take back some control in my life and start to focus on the things I really want to do.

NEW MEGA MAN AAAJHH

Last night I was going on about the Frankenstein movie. I still am because the "who is the real monster" takes are insane. In the movie, it's Victor. In the books, it's both. Victor is a monster by blind ambition. The creature is a monster of circumstance.

Also I'm not saying that the creature is unsympathetic in the novel; it absolutely is. But there are glaring differences in the choices it makes between the novel and the film. Again, I think the movie is fantastic. It's a different telling of the story. Nothing wrong with that at all.

So much of what I'm seeing online about the movie is like... tell me you never read the book without telling me. That, or you misunderstood it greatly.

Also all of you simping for the creature in the new Frankenstein need better hobbies.

Or at least be quieter about masturbating to it, good god.

It's well acted, decently written, visually fantastic, and enjoyable overall. The liberties it takes do diminish some of the original story, but it uses those changes to tell a different version, and that's okay. If you have an extra two and a half hours to watch it, I recommend it.

The argument of the original tale is who the monster is and the movie takes away some viewer agency by outright stating it's Victor and definitely not the creature. With all of this in mind, it's a solid adaptation on it's own and follows the book closer than any other film version of Frankenstein.

The creature learning to speak and read is done better in the movie than the novel, I feel, where the former has the creature learning from a blind man who cannot see or judge him as he is, whereas the latter has him learn by watching a family while living in a nearby hovel.

There is an allegory to the cycle of abuse throughout and while it's a worthy tale, it's not necessarily the tale of Frankenstein. It glosses over Victor's growth with a single line, "I've regained sanity at a great cost, and yet here you are, madness calling me back."

This allows the movie to make it entirely sympathetic. The creature is never allowed to be a monster beyond the means of its existence. There is a scene where the creature tells Victor to his face, "you are the monster". In fact, from that scene onward, the film begins to lose it's footing for me.

The movie entirely foregoes Victor's fiancee, instead opting to make Elizabeth his younger brother's fiancee. She becomes strangely infatuated with the creature, almost at first sight. Further, the creature only ever kills out of self defense or when forced to.

The creature grieves this, not out of genuine love or forgiveness, but because the game they played was all the creature had left. With this, he chooses death. Whether he dies or not, we don't know. The movie skirts these arguments throughout.

Since Victor will not make a companion for him, the creature vows to torment Victor for his remaining days, beginning a long time back and forth hunt between the two; Victor seeking to kill the creature while also fleeing the torment of it. After telling his story to a ship captain, Victor dies.

This time, he threatens the life of Victor's fiancée. Victor agrees to the task, but ultimately changes his mind. He cannot, will not, create another thing so potentially dangerous. The creature holds true to his promise and kills Victor's fiancée.

But then, after learning his creator's name, chooses to seek him out and demand a companion to forever join him in unlife. Victor, recognizing his mistakes, chooses not to oblige the creature. As a result, the creature kills Victor's younger brother and demands a bride again.